GA landlords sued by white tenant who says she was evicted after having black friend over – “I don’t put up with n*****s in my [house], and I don’t want them on my property,” according to the lawsuit
A white woman in North Georgia has filed a housing discrimination suit against landlords who she says evicted her because she had African American guests over for a play date with her daughters, aged 2 and 9.
Victoria Sutton lived in a home in Adairsville, owned by Patricia and Allen McCoy, from August 2017 until December, when she says she moved out over concerns for her and her daughter’s safety.
She lived there with her family, including her 2-year-old’s father, her 9-year-old daughter and a 19-year-old niece.
According to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by lawyers from the ACLU of Georgia and the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, in September, Sutton began inviting a black co-worker with a 5-year-old son to visit so their children could play.
After one of the playdates, the lawsuit says, Allen McCoy knocked on her door and used racial slurs to refer to African Americans.
He called her a “n***** lover,” the suit says, and threatened to call Child Protective Services over her having a “n***** on their property.”
According to the lawsuit, he told her she had two weeks to move out, adding that he’d previously evicted a woman who’d tried to let an African American person move in with her.
The landlords deny the allegations
Sutton later called her landlords, recording the phone conversation with Patricia McCoy, who told her, “I don’t put up with n*****s in my [house], and I don’t want them on my property,” according to the lawsuit.
Allen McCoy denied the allegations to CNN affiliate WSB and said he wasn’t prejudiced. “Some of the best friends I got is colored,” he said.
Patricia McCoy also denied that she’d asked Sutton to move out over the race of her guests; rather, she cited damage to bathrooms, walls and doors in their rental property. However, the suit says that photographs of the property showed no such damage.
“Some of my best friends are black,” she told WSB.
Sutton now lives in Calhoun, a town about 10 miles north of Adairsville, according to the lawsuit.
Where you live and how you live
The suit alleges that the McCoys broke state and federal laws related to civil rights and fair housing. It is requesting compensation for damages related to emotional distress and the “diversion of resources” in having to move.
Sean J. Young, legal director for the ACLU of Georgia, filed the lawsuit on Sutton’s behalf. He told CNN that he hadn’t encountered another housing discrimination case in which he felt the evidence was so clear.
“Discriminatory motives are rarely spoken aloud and even more rarely caught on tape,” he said. “People who discriminate are almost always able to come up with a neutral-sounding pretext for their discrimination.”
He said it was important to work on the case because if the allegations were proved true, “it would be a stark reminder of the injustice that continues to thrive in Georgia today.”
Young added that “housing discrimination is one of the most pernicious forms of discrimination today,” that it contributes to inequality and that it can serve to limit the long-term dreams and aspirations of its victims.
“Where you live determines how you live,” he said.
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Texas woman lived with mother’s dead body for 3 years
A Texas woman was arrested on Thursday after it was discovered that she and her daughter had been living with her mother’s dead body for three years.
Delissa Crayton, 47, was arrested after the decomposed “skeletal remains” believed to belong to her mother, Jacqueline Louise Crayton, were discovered on Sunday at her home in Seguin, Texas.
Investigators believe the woman, who was 71 years old at the time of her death, suffered a non-life-threatening fall in her bedroom in 2016. Delissa allegedly failed to help her and the woman died after a few days of lying on the floor.
Police said Crayton and her daughter, who was under the age of 15 at the time, lived in the two-bedroom home for three years with the body.
Delissa Crayton is charged with injury to a child under the age of 15 through recklessly, by omission, causing to a child, serious mental deficiency, impairment or injury. It’s a felony that could result in two to 20 years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000.
Her daughter was placed with family members and will receive help from the the Seguin Police Department, Guadalupe County Child Advocacy Center and Child Protective Services.
Police are still investigating, but said more charged are expected to be filed against Crayton.
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‘I hope Trump deports you’: Customer threatens Puerto Rican woman for speaking Spanish, then continues with “I pay legal money, not drug money.”
A racist rant by a white woman at a grocery store was caught on video. In it, she’s seen telling a Puerto Rican woman that she should “be deported” and go back to her “own country.”
Johanny Santana was shopping in Abington Township, located in Montgomery County, Penn., during the incident, as reported by NBC 10 Philadelphia. According to a video she posted on Facebook, Santana was at check-out at the store, in process of paying and leaving when the woman behind her in line began a tirade.
The video shows that she was unhappy with the fact that Santana was speaking Spanish, which is when the fall-out began.
When the Puerto Rican woman asked if she had a problem, the other woman responded with “Can you stop talking to me?”
The rant continued, and the video shows both women getting more and more heated. “I was born here, you don’t belong here,” the woman told Santana. “Go back to your own country — we’re not your fu***ing piggyback.”
The video shows her telling Santana how she “should be deported” because she “came here illegally.” She added that she hopes that Trump deports her.
Santana did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment, but she told NBC 10 that she replied to the woman with insults of her own — which she isn’t proud of, in retrospect.“I regret it because I didn’t want to tell her that,” she told the Philadelphia channel. “I felt powerless because I didn’t speak English well enough to be able to properly respond to her.”
As Santana completed her transaction, the other woman held out what appears to be $5 bills and said: “I pay legal money, not drug money.” The identity of the white woman in the video has not been revealed.
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Woman comments on her own wanted photo on the Crime Stoppers Facebook page: ‘That picture ugly’
A Louisiana woman wanted for second-degree murder was apparently unhappy with the photo officials used on social media to help bring her into custody – and she decided to vent.
“That picture ugly,” Precious Landry, who was still at large at the time, commented on her mugshot uploaded to the St. Martin Crime Stoppers Facebook page last month.
“Precious Landry you are always welcome to head over to the Sheriff’s Office and take a new picture if you want,” Crime Stoppers responded. “Or you can just wait to take it when someone turns you in to collect on the $1,000 reward.”
Soon after, the post was updated to say Landry had turned herself into law enforcement. “Thanks for all your tips and information.”
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New Jersey pastor, Rev. Dr. William Weaver, allegedly set up an elaborate ceremony where he convinced the men involved that he would purge evil spirits from their bodies by performing oral sex on them
The pastor reportedly told his victims that this was a Native American ritual he learned first-hand from indigenous tribes.
The allegations from the three men date back to at least 1999, and each of their stories are very similar.
The men say that the pastor told them to get completely undressed during the ceremony, where he would perform various superficial rituals before performing oral sex on them. The pastor would then spit objects into a bag and tell the victims that he has removed the bad spirits from their bodies.
“He would then ingest my ejaculate and then would spit up multiple pieces of plastic or metal into a Ziploc bag,” one victim told reporters.
“When it was over he showed me what looked to be a tiny metal ball and said that was what he got out of me,” another victim said.
The men also described how the pastor put his tongue in their mouths to see if there were any spirits hiding in there.
Eventually, the men started asking questions about the strange ritual and realized that something wasn’t right.’
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Teen who brought loaded gun to Iowa school just wanted attention
DAVENPORT, Iowa – A defense attorney argued Thursday that a teen boy brought a loaded gun to school did so in a bid for attention, not to cause any physical harm.
Eight witnesses testified in court as 13-year-old Luke Andrews sat beside his lawyers inside the Scott County Courthouse.
North Scott Junior High School counselor Holly Leinhauser was emotional as she remembered the moments that she worked with another teacher to grab the gun out of the then-12-year-old’s hands.
“Then I asked, ‘What was the intent? What were you trying to do?’ And he said, ‘To end it and end anything’ that got in his way,” Leinhauser told the jury when asked about August 31, 2018.
That’s the day police say Andrews brought a .22 caliber pistol to school.
He is accused of walking into a classroom, telling his peers to get down, pointing the gun at a teacher and pulling the trigger. The safety was reportedly on, preventing the gun from firing.
The boy’s defense attorneys said Andrews never intended to kill anyone.
“What Luke did was attention-seeking behavior,” said defense attorney Meenakshi Brandt. “Not intent to commit murder.”
In an opening statement, Brandt told the jury, “He did bring a gun to school. He did bring it into a classroom. Luke owns that fact.”
The school resource officer held the gun up in court and identified it.
Andrews is on trial in adult court and is charged as a youthful offender.
Prosecutors used their opening statement to remind the jury of the job they have to do to give Andrews a fair trial.
“I will ask you to put aside your sympathy, your bias, and I will ask you to follow the law,” said Julie Walton, Assistant Attorney in Scott County, Iowa.
Court resumes Friday at 9:00 a.m. at the Scott County Courthouse.
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34 cannabis plants found growing in flower beds at the Vermont Capitol
Vermont’s Capitol Police have quite the mystery on their hands after a visitor pointed out a possible cannabis plant growing in the flower beds on the front lawn.
An officer inspected the lawn on Monday and found what is believed to be either a hemp or marijuana plant. Chief Matthew Romei said they found 34 immature plants that are too young to differentiate.
The genetic differences between hemp and marijuana are whether the plant has the potential to change your mental state, according to a University of Minnesota study.
Further lab testing would be needed to figure out what the plants are, but Romei says the department has no plans to test them because it isn’t pursuing a criminal case.
“We also have no thoughts on why someone would plant it,” the department said. “But if anyone wants to claim it and let us know why they planted it, we are happy to listen.”
Vermont was the first state to legalize recreational marijuana through legislature as opposed to by ballot in 2018 and legalized medicinal marijuana in 2004.
Adults who are at least 21 are allowed to have up to 1 ounce of marijuana. If you want to grow, you’re not allowed to have more than two mature marijuana plants and four immature marijuana plants, according to state law. A person convicted of breaking these laws can face up to six months of jail time or be fined $500.
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Pastor out at famed Riverside Church after sex toy shopping spree
The reason for her ouster is far more stimulating than any sermon this pastor could have delivered.
The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, the first woman to lead Manhattan’s famed Riverside Church, lost her lofty post amid complaints that she brought ministers and a congregant on a sex toy shopping spree and then gave one of them an unwanted vibrator as a birthday gift, The Post has learned.
On May 15, Butler allegedly took two Riverside assistant ministers and a female congregant to a sex shop in Minneapolis called the Smitten Kitten, during a religious conference, according to sources familiar with the out-of-town shopping excursion.
At the store, the pastor bought a $200 bunny-shaped blue vibrator called a Beaded Rabbit for one minister — a single mom of two who was celebrating her 40th birthday — as well as more pleasure gadgets for the congregant and herself, sources said.
The female minister didn’t want the sex toy, but accepted it because she was scared not to, sources said.
Butler also offered to buy a toy for the second minister — a gay man in a committed relationship — but he declined, sources said.
Butler, who is known as “Pastor Amy,” and the others were visiting Minneapolis for the 27th annual Festival of Homiletics, a week-long conference at which the 49-year-old pastor presided over the closing worship service.
Neither assistant minister wanted to go to the raunchy store and the male minister repeatedly told Butler they were uncomfortable. Butler said they didn’t have to go, but they “felt pressured” and feared professional retaliation, sources said.
At the register, Butler quipped, “Is this a church business expense?” and “pulled out the church credit card” — although it’s unclear if she actually used it to make the purchase, the source said.
A formal harassment claim was filed days later, prompting the church’s lawyer to hire a third-party investigator who interviewed both assistant ministers and substantiated the claims, sources said.
Butler did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
In a New York Times article published online Thursday — after The Post began making calls for this story — her supporters claimed she was let go because she spoke up against harassment and sexism.
But a source familiar with the investigation said Butler and the church mutually parted ways when her position became untenable amid accusations of misconduct — adding that the sex-toy incident was one of “several concerns that the Riverside Church Council had about Amy’s judgement.”
Both parties realized Butler’s position became unworkable after the Minneapolis complaint and they mutually parted ways, the source said.
Trouble started brewing during the previous year, after Butler penned an essay titled“From #MeToo to #ChurchToo to #NeverAtChurch,” that claimed a male “lay leader” at Riverside had behaved “inappropriately” toward her and other female staffers.
In Butler’s opinion piece for the Baptist News Global website, the reverend said she initially stayed silent about the sexist mistreatment, but reported it to church officials after “witnessing another exchange I found unprofessional and uncomfortable.”
“Here at Riverside we are striving to model what a faith community should be: a safe place for everyone,” she wrote.
“Harmful and abusive behavior must be exposed and confronted; this means disciplining employees and community leaders who violate those policies.”
Butler was hired in 2014 as the seventh senior minister of Riverside Church — a massive Gothic cathedral in Morningside Heights known as a bastion of inter-denominational liberalism that was led during the late 1970s and ’80s by the late anti-war activist the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr.
Butler’s cushy five-year contract, which expired June 30, paid her a $250,000 annual salary, an $8,000-a-month housing allowance and more than $55,000 in yearly pension contributions, according to documents obtained by The Post.
Even before the vibrator incident, the two parties were “far apart on negotiations,” as Butler had hired a lawyer to help her try to score a $100,000-a-year raise, a source said.
Butler’s successor, interim Senior Minister Michael Livingston, broke the news of her departure during his sermon at a Sunday worship service on July 7.
A congregant who was present — and aware of the allegations against Butler — said several of the Biblical readings “seemed to allude to the current turmoil,” most notably Galatians 6:7, which says, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”
A lawyer for the church provided The Post with a joint statement from Butler and Church Council chairwoman Marilyn Mitchell that was previously posted on Riverside’s website.
“Rev. Dr. Amy Butler and the Riverside Church Council are announcing that after five years of leadership, Pastor Amy will not be renewing her contract as Senior Minister,” the statement said.
“The Council thanks Pastor Amy for her leadership and asks all congregants to pray for her continued ministry as a leader in the progressive Christian world.”
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Driver charged after using case of beer as child booster seat, police say
(Meredith) — If you don’t have a proper booster seat, don’t try to make one.
Police in Ontario, Canada said a 22-year-old driver used a case of beer as a makeshift booster seat for a two-year-old child.
Ontario Provincial Police said in a tweet that the driver was charged Wednesday with failing to ensure a child was properly seat-belted.
The child was unharmed.
CTV News reports that a proper child seat was brought to the location, and Family & Children’s Services was notified.
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Mom who drove girls into Michigan river tried poison first
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) – Authorities say a Michigan woman killed herself and twin daughters by driving into a river after trying to poison the children.
Kalamazoo police released reports saying 44-year-old Ineza McClinton tried to make 9-year-old twins, Angel and Faith, drink juice with added antifreeze in the spring. McClinton’s mother told investigators about the plan, which included Ineza McClinton’s attempt to die by overdosing on pills. Relatives told police they intervened in McClinton’s suicide attempt and discovered her unsuccessful effort to poison the girls.
Police say information about the attempted poisoning wasn’t reported to officers in Grand Rapids, where McClinton and her daughters lived.
McClinton drove into the Kalamazoo River on June 17 after letting out two granddaughters. Relatives say she sought help for depression and took prescription drugs for mental illnesses.
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